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If you liked Funny Games, start with these three. 1. 5150 Elm's Way (2009, France): You're trapped with a smiling family whose hospitality hides something monstrous 2. Thesis (1996, Spain): You uncover a snuff film and the killers may already know your name 3. 13: Game of Death (2006, Thailand): You must complete increasingly vile tasks or lose everything,someone is always watching

If you want to understand what Danish horror is capable of, start with The Ringmaster and The Angel Maker. Two very different films, same ruthless conviction in their darkness

Your 7-point Parent Promise is a start, but it doesn't go far enough. Here is what must be added to remove Far-Left ideology from British schools. 1.) Mandate far-left history: Require every pupil to study the history and outcomes of Marxism, Communism, and revolutionary socialism alongside Nazism, including death tolls (94-110 million), gulags, famines, and mass repression. 2.) Neutrality audit and ban third-party charters: Legally treat terms such as “equity,” “intersectionality,” “white privilege,” “unconscious bias,” “decolonisation,” and “anti-racism,” etc., as contested partisan concepts. Ban state-funded bodies from paying for or adopting third-party equality/equity charters. 3.) Reform teacher training: Remove initial training from university education departments. Establish a National College of Teaching focused on subject mastery and liberal pluralism; Prohibit Critical Pedagogy frameworks. 4.) Enforce impartiality and close the Section 406 gap: Teachers who present far-left ideologies (e.g., “white privilege,” gender theory, decolonisation, etc.) face QTS review after a Neutrality Audit finding. 5.) Ban unapproved third-party materials: Prohibit use of lesson plans or resources from the NEU, partisan charities, or NGOs unless they pass a Neutrality Audit and receive DfE/Curriculum Standards Body approval. 6.) Per-pupil funding portability: Make funding follow the pupil so parents can exit radicalised schools. 7.) Religious integrity: Centre Christianity in Religious Education as the nation’s foundational heritage. Prohibit schools from requiring or requesting non-Muslim pupils to participate in Islamic prayer. 8.) Ban postcolonial/Fanon-Marxist frameworks: Prohibit institutional promotion or adoption of postcolonial theory and Fanon-Marxist decolonisation doctrines across education and the public sector. End public funding for related audits, training, or historical revisionism. 9.) Ban gender and trans ideology for under-16s: Prohibit teaching gender theory or queer theory ideologies to anyone under 16; that sex is a social construct, that gender is a spectrum separate from sex, or that a child can be “born in the wrong body.” This would be classified as a form of child sexual abuse (CSA), emotional/psychological grooming, carrying severe criminal penalties for teachers. 10.) Ban CRT-derived anti-racism: Prohibit anti-racism teachings in state-funded education with explicit bans of Critical Race Theory and Critical Theory-derived equity ideology, including “white privilege,” “unconscious bias,” “allyship,” “intersectionality,” and “white guilt.” Immediate QTS review and Ofsted inspection if breached.

I will always defend women’s rights and rights to female-only spaces, but with the amount of anti-male shit I see online, I’m finding it really hard to support women for anything beyond that. The celebration of sluts having abortions when their child is male really makes me unsympathetic to women for things like abortion rights.

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Paddy with Trump derangement syndrome draws false equivalency between popular reactions to murderous political violence and a mentally ill man committing suicide by tiger. Shocking. Truly a broken people.

This is a gash, @fiona_graph

I don't know slit, why did you bother to drive by comment and block?

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“Trans women” are just gay male bottoms plus ancient homophobia plus HIV outreach. This is your “trans people have always existed”

En un templo de Camboya devorado por la selva, una talla del siglo XII desconcierta al mundo, porque muestra un animal con placas dorsales idéntico a un estegosaurio. ¿Convivieron los humanos con dinosaurios o es un engaño visual? Es el enigma de Ta Prohm. Tira del hilo 🧵👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽

Let me strip away the Borgspeak and translate this into language everyone can understand: "In many cultures in the world, including mine, a homosexual male is so offensive to society's sensibilities that our cultures have developed a *pretty homophobic* workaround for us, giving us culture-specific descriptors that all roughly translate as something like "man-as-woman" or "womanly man". You may have heard this referred to as "third gender". Working on society-wide acceptance of homosexuality would never fly in our cultures. So we fight to maintain this ancient workaround system. We are still rejected by society, but not as much as if we were just going around as gay men. And here's why international governments and philanthropists care about us: we are extremely susceptible to HIV infection, because we almost invariably work as prostitutes, and our customers are invariably straight married men who fetishise us, so our sexual networks spread to the general population. Therefore, in order to reach us as an epidemiological population for international AIDS funding, we have collectively adopted the foreign label "transgender" because it helps us organise ourselves internationally and, importantly, this universalising label makes it easier for us to receive international support. When we say that the "sex binary is a colonial import", what we actually mean is that when colonisers arrived on our shores, they outlawed sodomy (NDLR: Thailand was never colonised). This meant that our third-gender identities were outlawed by foreign invaders, because at the end of the day, all we really are is gay men. So now we are adopting trendy "decolonial" messaging because it will help us get support from Western white-paper writers and academics, who will use this fashionable decolonial *lens* to help us reinforce this ancient homophobia. Then we can present our cultural identities as exotic, gender-bending and above all, decolonised -- and we all know that Western lefties love that shit. We all secretly know that foreign support is largely predicated on us all practicing safer sex, so that international AIDS goals can be achieved, but we keep the "human rights" gloss because that's less messy and clinical and easier to sell to the normies. Ultimately, it's all a kind of neocolonialism, ironically. The genius ingredient: pairing HIV/AIDS treatment with "gender affirming care" brings all the boys to the clinic. So when I say that my friend, a "ladyboy", lost access to gender affirming care when Trump pulled the plug on USAID funding to my trans NGO, what I'm really saying is that my ladyboy friend, who, again, is just a gay lad with a pair of tits his customers like, has lost his access to HIV/AIDS care."

So how does DEI, an industrial complex that creates highly motivated, highly refined racist white people, fix Black infant mortality exactly? Also, since when do you fucking Democrats care about babies dying unless you're trying to facilitate an abortion?

The surrogate is not the mother. The baby is returned to its mother after birth. Returned to the real mum, from whose large gametes the baby grew. The woman who that baby will grow up to resemble. Whose nose & temperament & IQ & disease risk profile baby will inherit. Mum.

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Oh please

Scratch the surface of any "my body my choice" radfem and you'll find a laundry nun eager to police other women's bodies. They can't even help it, just let them squawk and pay them no mind.

NYT won't keep publishing him if he's too TERFy. He's a rank careerist, it's not that deep.

The worst version of Katie Herzog is the one where she's moralizing about feminism NOONE WANTS THIS FROM YOU JUST BE FUNNY